Portland, Oregon
Collins Beach UFO Boat
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
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Portland, Oregon
This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.
Keams Canyon, Arizona
More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
Caliente, Nevada
The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.
Hiko, Nevada
Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.
Austin, Nevada
This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.
Oakland, California
A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.
Bodmin, England
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Truro, England
Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Fregene, Italy
This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.
Hòa Vang, Vietnam
This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.
Summit, New Jersey
An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.
Abernethy, Scotland
One of two Irish-style round towers in Scotland, this structure has mysterious origins.
Bruges, Belgium
The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.
Lumberton, Mississippi
This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.