This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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