The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.