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A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

An abandoned company town and cement factory outside of Bogotá, now haunted by ghosts and scofflaws.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.