Places punk opossum Wants to Go

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

The ship that got left behind.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.