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Ruins

Tabula Traiana

A Roman monument to their own civil engineering prowess.

płocki, Poland

Warsaw Radio Mast Remains

The shattered remains of the world's once tallest structure.

Ruins in Dunwich

Dunwich, England

The Lost Town of Dunwich

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor, Cambodia.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ta Prohm

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Hampi

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

The temple by night

Templo de Debod

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Nagasaki, Japan

Gunkanjima Island

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Berlin, Germany

Schwerbelastungskörper

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Seattle, Washington

Seattle Underground

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

St. Peter's exterior

Cardross, Scotland

The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

Toniná

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Stockholm, Sweden

Vasa Museum

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Looking across the Hudson River towards New Jersey, at night

New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Lepenski Vir head sculpture.

Boljetin, Serbia

Lepenski Vir

Stone age urban planning.

Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Québec

Thetford Asbestos Mine

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

Cuxhaven, Germany

Site of operation Backfire

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.