Zanzibar, Tanzania
Tippu Tip's House
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
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Zanzibar, Tanzania
This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.
Tambon Thani, Thailand
A remarkable abandoned cinema that looks like it's frozen in time.
Yangon, Myanmar
An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.
Baguio, Philippines
This eerie abandoned building with a dark history is said to be one of the most haunted places in the Philippines.
Łapalice, Poland
This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.
Cibola County, New Mexico
In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.
Mexico City, Mexico
Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.
Kobe, Japan
An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.
Campbell, Ohio
There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.
Telega, Romania
This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.
Al Madam, United Arab Emirates
An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.
Molson, Washington
This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.
Washington, West Virginia
One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.
Mexico City, Mexico
This once-abandoned mansion is now a dreamy event space.
Adalar, Turkey
One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.
Brištane, Croatia
This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.
Trakošćan, Croatia
This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.
Malinska, Croatia
This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.
Duzluk, Croatia
Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.
Zagreb, Croatia
Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.
Bogotá, Colombia
Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.
Bogotá, Colombia
The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.
Bogotá, Colombia
Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.