Explore the abandoned city of Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster
Explore the Fukushima Exclusion Zone, a unique area affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan
Visit the abandoned Burj Al Babas castle village in Turkey, a surreal landscape of hundreds of identical fairy-tale castles left unfinished.
Visit the Solheimasandur plane wreck, a famous abandoned DC-3 on a black sand beach in Iceland
Abandoned flying-saucer monument on a Balkan mountaintop.
Historic cocoa plantation estate.
Jungle ruins of a 17th-century Jewish plantation town, with the oldest synagogue remains in the Americas.
Ruined British slave fort on an island in the Sierra Leone River, from which thousands were shipped to the Carolinas.
Walled city and ghostly Varosha.
Bissau's faded colonial centre.
Crumbling stone caravan town on the old salt and gold routes.
Island of ancient ruins and war history.
Walk the ghost settlement of Santa Bárbara, the colonial mercury mine they called 'the mine of death'
Sail through a narrow gap into the flooded caldera of an active volcano, past a ruined whaling station and beaches warm enough to dig a hot bath.
Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago — a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.
Visit the abandoned leper colony of Arico, a historic site in Tenerife, Spain, that was used to isolate patients with leprosy in the early 20th century.
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