These ruins of an octagonal stone school that was later used as an A.U.M.P. church exemplify a popular school design from the 1830s.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

This memorial celebrates the legacy of the British-Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

A MiG-17 fighter jet sits atop this memorial to the indiscriminate bombardment of Hargeisa.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

A trail of footprints discovered after a landslide was left not by the Devil, as originally believed, but by an early human ancestor.

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

This site honors an Israeli cargo ship that was destroyed by the government in 1948.

The first place where the scientific innovation known as radar was first demonstrated in Britain.

In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.

This young woman's tombstone names her murderer, who is buried in the same cemetery.

One of the earliest—and most commonly forgotten—acts of rebellion against English rule.