Sausalito, California
Marin Headlands
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
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Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Vienna, Austria
Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
San Francisco, California
A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Oakland, California
Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Corsham, England
Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.
Offaly, Ireland
Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Greatstone, England
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
Holmdel, New Jersey
Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.
St. Augustine, Florida
Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.