Calipatria, California
Slab City
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
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Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Once a popular hangout spot this huge mall was left to ruin after economic crash.
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.
Louth, England
A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.
Egkomi, Cyprus
This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.
Mitsero, Cyprus
Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.
Junagadh, India
This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.
Rajsamand, India
The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.
Gheti, India
A mecca for India's Jains.
Patan, India
This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.
Ogasawara, Japan
This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.
Beaufort, Luxembourg
This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.
Graz, Austria
Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.
Roudbar Alamout, Iran
This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.
Calascio, Italy
What looks like a link in Gondor's early warning system is actually a centuries-old Italian fortress.
Italy
A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.
Jiayuguan, China
The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Zhangye Shi, China
These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.
Hong Kong
This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.
Tulufan Shi, China
Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Salento, Colombia
The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.