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Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Prison Farm

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.
Waukegan, Illinois

Dead River

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.
Added by MattB
Argyll and Bute, Scotland

Polphail Village

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.
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Kholmogorskiy rayon, Russia

Sutyagin House.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.
jamesb Added by jamesb
Székesfehérvár, Hungary

Bory Castle

Hungarian self-built castle.
Added by mbison
Munich, Germany

Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Virginia City, Nevada

Comstock Cemeteries

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.
Vienna, Austria

Republic of Kugelmugel

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Josh Added by Josh
Aralsk, Kazakhstan

Aral Sea

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
Los Angeles, California

Old Zoo Picnic Area

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.
Added by Lisa E
Laranjal do Jari, Brazil

The Nazi Graveyard of Brazil

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.
Vienna, Austria

Gasometer Town

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
Malacca, Malaysia

Museum of Beauty

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.
Rebekah Otto Added by Rebekah Otto
New Orleans, Louisiana

The Absinthe Museum

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.
littlebrumble Added by littlebrumble
Pula, Croatia

Brioni

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.
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Dresden, Germany

Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Agano, Japan

Niigata Russian Village

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.
Added by roche
Budapest, Hungary

Semmelweis Medical Museum

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.
Dylan Added by Dylan
Toronto, Ontario

Bata Shoe Museum

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.
anhie Added by anhie
California City, California

California City: The Unbuilt Suburb

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Austin, Texas

Congress Bridge Bats

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Dylan Added by Dylan
England

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Mesa Verde National Park

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
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