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

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

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

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.