Shibam, Yemen
Shibam
A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."
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Shibam, Yemen
A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Washington, D.C.
The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.
Carhué, Argentina
Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.
Jaipur, India
More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.
Bhangarh, India
This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Sigüés, Spain
A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.
Corfu, Greece
The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Genola, Utah
The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.
Fairview, Utah
A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.
Margalef, Spain
An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Overton, Nevada
Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.
Clark County, Nevada
This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."