Chicago, Illinois
Abandoned Brach's Candy Factory
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.
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Chicago, Illinois
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.
Nardò, Italy
A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.
Monopoli, Italy
Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Shkodër, Albania
According to a local legend, this old castle could only be built after a woman was immured in the walls.
Sveti Stefan, Montenegro
This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'
Gnojnice, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Plitvička Jezera, Croatia
A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.
Zadar, Croatia
Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.
Isthmia, Greece
A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.
Lopar, Croatia
The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.
Malinska, Croatia
This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Berlin, Germany
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
Rangsdorf, Germany
The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Freiberg, Germany
A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.
Göttingen, Germany
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.
Saalfeld, Germany
"The most colorful grottoes of the world.