Visit Roça Água Izé

Sleepy colonial island capital.

One of only three Jacobean mansions left in the Americas, still a working sugar plantation with its own rum distillery and steam railway.

Bissau's faded colonial centre.

A Portuguese colonial capital on the equator, pastel and peeling, with cocoa plantations in the hills behind it.

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