Škaljari, Montenegro
Fortress Gorazda
This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.
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Škaljari, Montenegro
This World War I fortress is the perfect place to catch a Montenegrin sunset.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Sabile, Latvia
Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Kuldīga, Latvia
The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.
Lidumnieki, Latvia
This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.
Liepāja, Latvia
Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.
Liepāja, Latvia
The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.
Irbene, Latvia
This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.
Mazirbe, Latvia
These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.
Ligatne, Latvia
A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.
Valga, Estonia
For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.
Stockholm, Sweden
Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.
Stockholm, Sweden
A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.
Seoul, South Korea
Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Antarctica
This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
Namibia
Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.