Suakin, Sudan
Suakin Island Ruins
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
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Suakin, Sudan
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
Sudan
All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."
Samos Prefecture, Greece
Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.
Valladolid, Mexico
If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.
Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
ChumkopĂł, Mexico
A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Essen, Germany
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Tallinn, Estonia
An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.
Fars Province, Iran
The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Dawson City, Yukon
A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Santa Cruz, California
A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Fremont, California
The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?