A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

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

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.