Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
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Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Ehlanzeni, South Africa
Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.
Redwood City, California
A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.
Hermiston, Oregon
A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
Johannesburg, South Africa
The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.
Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain
Spain's stunning solar energy plant.
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge that died in war and was resurected.
Moscow, Russia
Gargantuan home of Russian science.
Whitehorse, Yukon
This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.
Potsdam, Germany
Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.
Landskrona, Sweden
This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.
San Francisco, California
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
London, England
Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.
Taipei, Taiwan
Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.
Aurland, Norway
A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.
Clermont-Ferrand, France
A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Hussaini, Pakistan
Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
El Peñol, Colombia
A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.