Syracuse, Utah
Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
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Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Vallehermoso, Spain
On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Solovetskiy, Russia
Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Pula, Croatia
Island wonderland for communist autocrats.
South Andaman, India
An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Jerusalem Township, Ohio
Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.
French Guiana
An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.
Fingal, Ireland
Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.
Moyenne Island, Seychelles
A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.
Besar Island, Malaysia
Island, once a pirate hideout, now home to an abandoned resort.
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Sark, Guernsey
The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.
Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna
The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.
Ascension Island
Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Aogashima, Japan
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Llangennith, Wales
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.