Orlando, Florida
Discovery Island
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
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Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Prague, Czechia
An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.
Oroszlány, Hungary
This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.
Tal, Austria
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
Herrnbaumgarten, Austria
The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Los Angeles, California
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
Sodus, New York
A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
Pol. Ind. de Asipo, Spain
This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.