Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
San Francisco, California
An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
Cervia, Italy
A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Olenivka, Ukraine
Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.
Krusevo, North Macedonia
Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.
Pyongyang, North Korea
A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.
Georgia
A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.
Moscow, Russia
Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.
Juraguá, Cuba
A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.
Dera, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Nagoro, Japan
As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.