A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

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

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

The largest archaeological site from the Yayoi period.

A rare example of an ancient Japanese hill castle believed to be the fortress of a legendary demon.

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

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

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

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

Forgotten for decades, the first medical school built in Communist China is full of surprises today.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

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

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.