A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

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

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

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

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

A 14th-century abbey founded by a forest-loving order of monks now sits in the center of a pristine nature preserve.