This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

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

Built to hold Gold Rush wealth, this building has withstood the test of time.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

This Scottish bay still reveals evidence of its days as a seaside swimming pool.

Stop by to view a fleet of handmade kayaks, all modeled on traditional Arctic hunting vessels.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.