Cairo, Illinois
Abandoned Town of Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
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Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
Keeler, California
A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.
Bodfish, California
This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.
Atlanta, Georgia
One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.
Milford, Connecticut
This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Baltimore, Maryland
Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.
Taupō, New Zealand
Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.
Ta Pek, Thailand
This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.
Kolkata, India
For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.
Avezzano, Italy
This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.
Oakland, Illinois
An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.
Ocean City, Maryland
One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.
Ponta do Pargo, Portugal
Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.
São Miguel, Portugal
A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.
Colares, Portugal
The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.
Cascais, Portugal
A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.
Napa, California
Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.
Arouca, Portugal
One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.
Cáceres, Spain
A neighborhood park in the city of Cáceres hides what some believe are revolutionary examples of Neanderthal cave art.
Hastings, England
This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.
Panguila, Angola
Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.