Iceland
Kerið Crater Lake
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
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Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Iceland
The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.
Iceland
This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Dawson City, Yukon
A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.
Deline, Northwest Territories
Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
Wrangell, Alaska
Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.
Liddel, Scotland
This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Stromness, Scotland
Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.
Santa Marta, Colombia
An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Howland Island
The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.
Nauru
"The country that ate itself."
Solomon Islands
The ship that got left behind.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.
Antarctica
This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.
Antarctica
Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.
Antarctica
The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.