A gray afternoon in winter is not usually considered the best time to visit a garden, but it’s perfect for my first glimpse of this extraordinary place. A battered sign reads: “Positively No Admittance!” Paul Orpello, my guide, opens a creaky gate and leads me into a landscape of ruins, which was largely abandoned for more than 50 years and is now being brought back to life. I realize that “garden” isn’t the right word for it. It feels more like a magical lost city that was bombed in a war.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Once a home for Swiss mountain guides, the hamlet of Edelweiss is now totally deserted.

The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area.

In post-USSR Russia and neighbouring states, places now abandoned offer reminders of the region’s turbulent history

Photography from the french artist Dimitri "Jahz Design".

The abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska -- made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild" -- has made its first journey in decades. This time by air. An Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter airlifted the bus, also known as the Fairbanks Bus 142 and the "Magic Bus," on Thursday afternoon, the Alaska National Guard said.

Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the first treks to the continent in the early 1900s.

This story is about a train. But it is not about train crash or something.A train which totally disappeared while passing through a tunnel of Lombard,Italy.

What's in store for the abandoned park's future? Nobody knows.

Thomas Jorion spent ten years photographing the faded glory of empty palaces and summer homes.

The abandoned Chernobyl exclusion zone could be about to change for the first time since the world's worst nuclear disaster.

When a former soldier learned that his village was going to be demolished 10 years ago, he picked up a brush and started painting – and he hasn’t stopped since.

(Written in German).

It was the height of luxury when it was built in 1971 near the Armenian capital Yerevan. Now stepping inside Zvartnots airport's abandoned terminal is like being transported back four decades.

A reconstructed Boeing 747 wowed Burning Man visitors, but things haven't gone so smoothly since the end of the event. A pilot found it abandoned in the desert.

A few years back, I moved into a Sears building — no, not that famous skyscraper in Chicago, or one of those department stores in the suburbs, but a city block-sized brick behemoth just south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nigeria's waters have become a dumping ground for shipwrecks and the people living on the coastline say the unserviceable vessels abandoned by local and international shipping companies are making their lives hard. By Sam Olukoya.

Who is paying $12 million for an abandoned town? We found out. By Michael Waters.

It is the ghost town in Western Australia that was built on an asbestos mine. Now authorities are concerned that curious tourists and thrill-seekers are returning to the outback town of Wittenoom, which was shut down in the 1970s. Local officials issued a notice this week warning people against visiting Wittenoom, located 1,100km (680 miles) north of Perth. The former mining town is officially classified as a contaminated site. Thousands of its former residents and visitors have died from asbestos exposure.