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This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Officially the lowest mountain in Japan.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

These tiny pine-covered islands have inspired art and poetry for centuries.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

Constructed 20 years ago, this sculpture is slowly fading to the hands of time.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.