Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Chateau Hutter
Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.
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Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.
Averara, Italy
Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.
Archaggelos, Greece
A dark, narrow tunnel that leads to a charming lake and waterfall.
Tallassee, Tennessee
Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.
Mount Creighton, New Zealand
This small stone hut was once home to a gold prospector and his family.
Hoyvík, Faroe Islands
Located more than 600 feet beneath sea level, this tunnel boasts the world's first undersea roundabout.
Apple Valley, California
Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course
Whitchurch, England
The site of an early Arthurian battle and the dwelling-place of prehistoric people and (possibly) an ancient race of giants.
Herndon, Virginia
Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Oroszlány, Hungary
This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Lexington, Mississippi
The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.
Carrbridge, Scotland
Designed to allow funerals to proceed over the River Dulnain.
Atlanta, Georgia
Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.
Montserrat
George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.
Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Cape Reinga, New Zealand
Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.
Kalimpong, India
Outside a hilltop monastery in India, a monument to a 20th-century Russian mystic.
Tallinn, Estonia
Thousands of graves lurk below the surface of this park.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.
Cape Town, South Africa
Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.
Los Angeles, California
A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.