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Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France

Douaumont Ossuary

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Republic of Nauru

Nauru

"The country that ate itself."
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Baikonur Cosmodrome

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
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Aralsk, Kazakhstan

Aral Sea

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.
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Butte, Montana

The Berkeley Pit

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
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Tokyo, Japan

Lucky Dragon and Atomic Tuna Memorial

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.
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Jämtland, Sweden

The Dead Falls of Lake Ragunda

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.
Added by Kris
Turkmenistan

The Gates of Hell

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
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Marshall Islands

Cactus Dome

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
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Pripyat, Ukraine

Abandoned City of Pripyat

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

Palmyra

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.
Added by heatherdoodle
Amarillo, Texas

Ozymandias on the Plains

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
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Laußig, Germany

Secret Military Bunker Kossa

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.
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Zhengzhou, China

Yan Huang Plaza

350-foot-high emperor faces in China's Yellow River valley.
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