Cave del Predil, Italy
Cave del Predil
With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.
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Cave del Predil, Italy
With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Nagasaki, Japan
A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
Nagasaki, Japan
The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.
Paju, South Korea
Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.
Yehliu, Taiwan
This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.
Shanghai, China
This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.
Lhasa, Tibet
Described as "the world's most blinging pool."
Rikaze Diqu, Tibet
The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.
Vĩnh Thạch, Vietnam
This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.
Xuân Trạch, Vietnam
World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.
Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
Qobustan, Azerbaijan
Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.
Thessaloniki, Greece
An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.
Thessaloniki, Greece
These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.