An Italian hillside ghost town.

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

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

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

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.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

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

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.