The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Where giant ships go to die.

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The world's tallest slum.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.