Durness, Scotland
Smoo Cave
A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past
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Durness, Scotland
A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past
Heilam, Scotland
The ruins of a defunct limestone quarry still haunt this Scottish promontory.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Cimarron, New Mexico
A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.
Naudītes Pagasts, Latvia
Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.
Slampe, Latvia
Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.
Kyaukse, Myanmar
The tower claims to be the world's only pagoda made entirely from Myanmar's lucrative gemstone.
Medway, England
This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.
Ečka, Serbia
Ruins of an old water tower that look like a horror-film castle.
Riga, Latvia
3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.
Zrenjanin, Serbia
Once a beautiful palace, this structure is now known as the ''museum of destruction."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.
Alexandria, Virginia
The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.
Lorton, Virginia
The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.
Alltnacaillich, Scotland
Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.
Highland, Scotland
This ruined travelers shelter sits abandoned in a desolate bog of Flow Country.
Llantysilio, Wales
This ancient abbey now lies in majestic ruin behind a caravan park.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Gwangju-si, South Korea
The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.