A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

"The country that ate itself."

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

The ship that got left behind.

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

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

15 monolithic temples emulate an eroding sand castle.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.