A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

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.

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

The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.