Flooded Towers

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.