Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Hirta Island Ghost Town
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
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Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Hammarland, Finland
A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
France
Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.