Svalbard, Norway
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
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Svalbard, Norway
This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Haifa, Israel
Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.
Sweden
Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.
Türisalu, Estonia
Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Ghosts of France's colonial past.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Kronshtadt, Russia
Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Chatsworth, California
Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
Georgia
Underground monastery and fortress.
Brooklyn, New York
Steam out your ears for New Year's Eve.
Prague, Czechia
The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.
Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Saint-Ouen, France
A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Monte di Cuma, Italy
Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.