The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Two standing giants remain as a tribute to Luxembourg's metallurgical past.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

Underground monastery and fortress.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

An abandoned amusement park turned street art gallery with open walls for visitors to spray paint.

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

The ruins of a 19th-century aqueduct run through this Brazilian island's deep forest.