The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

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

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.