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Hotan, China

Hotan Sunday Market

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.
Max Cortesi Added by Max Cortesi
Ak-Su, Kyrgyzstan

Merzbacher Lake

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.
Added by Tawsam
Ming-Kush, Kyrgyzstan

Min Kush

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.
Max Cortesi Added by Max Cortesi
French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Kerguelen Islands

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.
The Minx Added by The Minx
Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
Added by cathar
Olkhonsky District, Russia

Baikal Seals

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.
Rebekah Otto Added by Rebekah Otto
Hatgal, Mongolia

Abandoned Petroleum Distribution Center

Traces of the thriving lake trade that once linked the Soviet Union with Mongolia.
Max Cortesi Added by Max Cortesi
Omsk, Russia

Pushkin Library Metro Station

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.
ylitvinenko Added by ylitvinenko
Ozersk, Russia

Lake Karachay

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.
Shetpe, Kazakhstan

Valley of Balls

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.
Added by Tawsam
United States Minor Outlying Islands

Jarvis Ghost Island

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Annetta Black Added by Annetta Black

Wake Island

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
Added by johnstewart1999
Barentsburg, Norway

Barentsburg

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.
daynix Added by daynix
Longyearbyen, Norway

Longyearbyen

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.
lewblank Added by lewblank
Pyramiden, Norway

Pyramiden

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.
The Minx Added by The Minx
Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories

The Smoking Hills

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
SamM Added by SamM
Deline, Northwest Territories

Great Bear Lake

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
AaronNetsky Added by AaronNetsky
Saskatchewan

Athabasca Sand Dunes

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.
SamM Added by SamM
Saskatchewan

Four Corners Monument (Canada Edition)

Two provinces and two territories touch borders deep in the middle of the wilderness.
Churchill, Manitoba

Churchill River Beluga Whales

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.
Added by KRC
Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec

Lake Manicouagan

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.
Mark Casey Added by Mark Casey
Samara, Russia

Stalin's Bunker

Stalin's secret bunker.
KaliaK Added by KaliaK
New Zealand

Spacecraft Cemetery

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
EricGrundhauser Added by EricGrundhauser
Beijing, China

Great Wall of China Slide

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?
lewblank Added by lewblank