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Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A Biblically notable site over the ruins of an ancient city that is now a protected World Heritage site.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

This Corsican Neolithic site is full of pre-Roman megalithic structures that may or may not be penises.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.