Gustavus, Alaska
Douglas C-47B Crash Site
Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.
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Gustavus, Alaska
Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.
Tofino, British Columbia
The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Tartu, Estonia
The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.
Čačersk, Belarus
A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.
Yermolaivka, Ukraine
Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.
Gagra, Georgia
Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.
Rijeka, Croatia
Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.
Shlisselburg, Russia
An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.
Kholmogorskiy rayon, Russia
What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.
Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.
Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Russia
Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.
Yakutsk, Russia
The coldest city in the world.
Onekotan Island, Russia
A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.
Aleutians West, Alaska
The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.
Rivière-Koksoak, Québec
A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.
Samara, Russia
Stalin's secret bunker.
Sosnogorsk, Russia
Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.
Alexandrovsky District, Russia
Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Greenland
The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.
Solovetskiy, Russia
No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.
Russia
One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.