This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.