Bayatbademleri Köyü, Turkey
Termessos
Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.
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Bayatbademleri Köyü, Turkey
Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.
Shanghai, China
Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.
Langkawi, Malaysia
This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.
Ashley, Pennsylvania
This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.
Refugio Villarrica, Chile
One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.
Puerto RÃo Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.
Vis, Croatia
Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.
Ascension Island
Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
La Paz, Bolivia
Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.
La Paz, Bolivia
A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Palmer, Alaska
An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Zhangjiajie, China
A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Mdina, Malta
The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.
Shaharah, Yemen
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.