Honolulu, Hawaii
Koko Crater Trail
Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.
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Honolulu, Hawaii
Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.
Meškuičių seniūnija, Lithuania
An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.
Ansons Bay, Australia
Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.
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.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.
London, England
The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.
Agion Oros, Greece
An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Sevastopol, Ukraine
In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Solovetskiy, Russia
Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.
Kalyazin, Russia
Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."
Moscow, Russia
Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.
Dmitrovsky District, Russia
A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.