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These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

Trace the history of the nation’s early days at the site of America’s oldest stock exchange.

The oldest building in Charleston was used to store gunpowder during the American Revolution.

Old ruins of a church from the 1200s.

The ship responsible for Antarctica’s largest oil spill still lies just below the surface.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.

"The country that ate itself."

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

This lonely tower survived the landslide that devastated much of a Mexican mining town.