Lost Places: AghdamAghdam (Azerbaijani: Ağdam) is a town and the nominal capital of the Aghdam District of Azerbaijan.3 min / Deep Akrotiri (prehistoric city)Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: ) is a Cycladic Bronze Age settlement site on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini.3 min / Deep Angkor WatAngkor Wat (; Khmer: អង្គរវត្ត, 'City/Capital of Temples') is a Vaishnava Hindu and Theravada Buddhist temple complex in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and the largest religious complex in the world.3 min / Deep Lost Places: AniAni (Armenian: Անի; Ancient Greek: Ἄνιον, romanized: Ánion; Latin: Abnicum) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia.3 min / Deep Lost Places: BabylonBabylon ( BAB-il-on) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of modern-day Baghdad.3 min / Deep Centralia, PennsylvaniaCentralia (, sen-TRAY-li-ə) is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.3 min / Deep Lost Places: ChoquequiraoChoquequirao is a 16th-century Incan site in the Cusco Region of southern Peru.3 min / Deep Lost Places: CracoCraco is a ghost town and comune in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, abandoned after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake.3 min / Deep Lost Places: DoggerlandDoggerland was a large area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.3 min / Deep Lost Places: EphesusEphesus ( EF-uh-suhs) was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.3 min / Deep Lost Places: FordlândiaFordlândia is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, Pará, Brazil.3 min / Deep Great ZimbabweGreat Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Masvingo.3 min / Deep Lost Places: HerculaneumHerculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.3 min / Deep Lost Places: KayaköyKayaköy (also: Kaya or Livissi) is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey.3 min / Deep Lost Places: KolmanskopKolmanskop (Afrikaans for "Coleman's peak", German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) inland from the port town of Lüderitz.3 min / Deep Kowloon Walled CityKowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍城寨) was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Chinese enclave within the boundaries of British Hong Kong.3 min / Deep Lost Places: KuldharaKuldhara is an abandoned village in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, India.3 min / Deep L'Anse aux MeadowsL'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago.3 min / Deep Leptis MagnaLeptis or Lepcis Magna, (Arabic: لبدة الكبرى, romanized: Libda al-Kubrā) also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.3 min / Deep Lost Places: MervMerv (Turkmen: Merw ; Persian: مرو ), also called the Merve Oasis, was a major Iranian city in Central Asia, located on the historical Silk Road, near today's Mary, Turkmenistan.3 min / Deep Mesa Verde National ParkMesa Verde National Park is a national park of the United States and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, and the only World Heritage Site in Colorado.3 min / Deep North and South Brother Islands (New York City)North and South Brother Islands are a pair of small islands located in New York City's East River between the mainland Bronx and Rikers Island.3 min / Deep Lost Places: PavlopetriThe archaeological site known as Pavlopetri (Greek: Παυλοπέτρι) is found in Vatika Bay, off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece.3 min / Deep Lost Places: PersepolisPersepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (c.3 min / Deep Plymouth, MontserratPlymouth is a ghost town and the de jure capital of the island of Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles, West Indies.3 min / Deep Lost Places: PripyatPripyat, also known as Prypiat, is an abandoned industrial city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus.3 min / Deep Lost Places: PyramidenPyramiden (Norwegian: ; Russian: Пирами́да, romanized: Piramída, IPA: ; literally 'The Pyramid') is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination.3 min / Deep Rhyolite, NevadaRhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.3 min / Deep Sukhothai Historical ParkSukhothai Historical Park (Thai: อุทยานประวัติศาสตร์สุโขทัย (Pronunciation)) covers the ruins of Sukhothai, literally 'dawn of happiness', capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries, in north central Thailand.3 min / Deep Lost Places: TikalTikal (; Tik'al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala.3 min / Deep Varosha, FamagustaVarosha (Greek: Βαρώσι, romanized: Varósi, locally ; Turkish: Maraş or Kapalı Maraş) is the southern quarter of Famagusta, a de jure territory of Cyprus, currently under the control of Northern Cyprus.3 min / Deep Wittenoom, Western AustraliaWittenoom is a former mining town and a declared contaminated site, 1,420 kilometres (880 mi) north-north-east of Perth, in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.3 min / Deep Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter WorksHumberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile.3 min / Deep PripyatA planned Soviet city became an abandoned time capsule after Chernobyl.8 min / Easy Hashima IslandA former coal-mining island off Japan now stands as a dense concrete ruin.8 min / Easy CracoA medieval Italian hill town was abandoned after landslides and earthquakes.7 min / Easy KayakoyA deserted village in Turkey preserves the aftermath of population exchange.7 min / Easy KolmanskopA Namibian diamond town was abandoned to the desert sands.7 min / Easy Bodie, CaliforniaA gold-rush town survives in a state of arrested decay.7 min / Easy Plymouth, MontserratA volcanic eruption buried the capital of Montserrat in ash.8 min / Easy Varosha, FamagustaA resort district became fenced-off after conflict in Cyprus.8 min / Easy Oradour-sur-GlaneA destroyed French village was preserved as a memorial after World War II.8 min / Medium AniA ruined medieval city near the Turkish-Armenian border once held many churches.8 min / Easy MervA Silk Road oasis city preserves layers of empires in the desert.8 min / Medium TikalA Maya city rises from the rainforest with temples, plazas, and stelae.8 min / Easy TeotihuacanA monumental Mesoamerican city holds avenues, pyramids, and unresolved origins.8 min / Medium Mesa Verde National ParkCliff dwellings preserve the architecture of Ancestral Puebloans.8 min / Easy HerculaneumA Roman town was preserved by the same eruption that buried Pompeii.8 min / Easy PompeiiVolcanic ash froze a Roman city into an archaeological snapshot.8 min / Easy DoggerlandA submerged prehistoric landscape once connected Britain to continental Europe.8 min / Medium PavlopetriAn ancient submerged town offers a rare look at Bronze Age urban planning.7 min / Medium L'Anse aux MeadowsA Norse site in Newfoundland proved pre-Columbian European presence in North America.8 min / Easy Nan MadolA city of basalt islets and canals rises from a Micronesian lagoon.8 min / Medium ChoquequiraoAn Inca site in Peru remains more remote and less visited than Machu Picchu.8 min / Easy Sukhothai Historical ParkRuins of an early Thai capital preserve temples and royal memory.7 min / Easy Leptis MagnaA Roman city in Libya preserves grand architecture at remarkable scale.8 min / Easy EphesusA major ancient city holds theaters, streets, and one of antiquity's great libraries.8 min / Easy PersepolisThe ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire remains carved in stone.8 min / Medium BabylonThe Mesopotamian city became a symbol of empire, myth, and archaeology.8 min / Medium Kowloon Walled CityAn extraordinarily dense, largely self-governed Hong Kong enclave was demolished in the 1990s.9 min / Medium FordlandiaHenry Ford's planned rubber settlement in the Amazon struggled against ecology, disease, and cultural conflict.9 min / Medium AghdamWar emptied an Azerbaijani city for decades, leaving extensive ruins before reconstruction began.8 min / Medium BelchiteThe ruins of a Spanish town destroyed in civil war stand beside the settlement built to replace it.8 min / Easy PyramidenA Soviet mining settlement on a Norwegian Arctic island remains preserved after its abandonment.7 min / Easy KadykchanA remote Russian coal town was emptied after the Soviet Union's collapse and a fatal mine explosion.7 min / Easy Wittenoom, Western AustraliaAn asbestos mining town was closed, removed from maps, and gradually dismantled because of contamination.9 min / Medium North Brother Island, East RiverAn island between New York boroughs holds the ruins of a quarantine hospital and rehabilitation center.8 min / Easy Rhyolite, NevadaA desert gold-rush boomtown rose quickly, collapsed, and left striking ruins near Death Valley.7 min / Easy Villa EpecuenFloodwater submerged an Argentine resort town for decades before receding to expose its remains.8 min / Easy San Juan ParangaricutiroLava from Paricutin buried a Mexican town while its church tower remained above the black rock.8 min / Easy KuldharaAn abandoned village in Rajasthan became surrounded by stories of a sudden departure and a lasting curse.7 min / Easy Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter WorksTwo Chilean company towns preserve the remains of a once-global nitrate industry.8 min / Medium