Electronic Waste Dump of the World: Guiyu, China
Ever wonder where those old used computers end up? How about all those old CRT monitors, cell phones, keyboards, and PDAs? We’re told when...
The Most Contaminated Place on Earth: Chelyabinsk-40
Outside of the Chernobyl incident, we seldom hear about the nuclear laboratories and test facilities of the former U.S.S.R. One particular installation – Chelyabinsk-40...
Abandoned Resort: Sanzhi, Taiwan
Sanzhi might look like an outcropping of structures from an episode of Star Trek, but the site is actually home to the remains of...
The Island Shaped Like a Battleship: Hashima
Populated from 1887 to 1974, Hashima was originally purchased by Mitsubishi to be run as a coal mining facility. Just off the coast of...
Sealand: Smallest Country in the World
Considered more of a principality, the micronation of Sealand is located on an old British World War II radar platform. It was a Maunsell...
The Manhattan of the Desert: Shibam, Yemen
Deep in the middle of Yemen lays a town nearly two-thousand years old that pioneered skyscrapers. Shibam, a town of about 7,000 people, was...
