Visit the old Portuguese quarter

Historic cocoa plantation estate.

Visit the abandoned Burj Al Babas castle village in Turkey, a surreal landscape of hundreds of identical fairy-tale castles left unfinished.

Abandoned flying-saucer monument on a Balkan mountaintop.

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

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.