Abandoned Observatories

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

The remains of the observatory of the Danish astronomer who first measured the speed of light.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.