Les Trois-Moutiers, France
Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
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Les Trois-Moutiers, France
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
Sanquhar, Scotland
A 13th-century stronghold that has fallen into ruin.
Békéscsaba, Hungary
The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.
Rochester, New York
This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.
Lorton, Virginia
Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.
Wilmington, Delaware
Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.
Oakland, New Jersey
The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.
Mollendo, Peru
An abandoned early 20th-century mansion towers over a cliff in a southern Peruvian beach town.
Bankya, Bulgaria
Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.
Kinnared, Sweden
Deep in the Swedish forest hides a forgotten water-powered carousel.
Port Orange, Florida
Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.
Lucerne Valley, California
This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.
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
Georgia
Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
Victorville, California
Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Fairfax, Virginia
A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.
Manchester, England
This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.
Washington, D.C.
Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.
Asheville, North Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
Washington, D.C.
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Portland, Oregon
This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.