Province of Matera, Italy
The Village of Craco
An Italian hillside ghost town.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.
Shengshan Island, China
This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.
Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt
An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.
Bjurholm, Sweden
A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.
Capel Saint Andrew, England
The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."
Landers, California
A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Green River, Wyoming
This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
South Bristol, Maine
For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.
Vrbice, Czechia
A mesmerizing landscape of 18th-century cellars carved out of the land.
Elliston, Newfoundland and Labrador
This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”
Edinburgh, Scotland
A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.
Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Perry, Florida
The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.
Waterbury, Vermont
The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.