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Abandoned
Taman Festival Bali
An abandoned theme park on Padang Galak beach north of Sanur, Bali, that opened in 1997 with a large pool, 3D cinema and laser shows. Struck by lightning and undone by the Asian financial crisis, it closed around 2000 and has been left to the jungle ever since, its ruined pavilions now covered in murals and reclaimed by vegetation.
-8.6576, 115.2655
Cemetery
Chaukhandi Tombs
An early Islamic necropolis about 30 km east of Karachi, Pakistan, built mostly between the 16th and 18th centuries and linked to the Jokhio and Baloch peoples. The sandstone graves are stacked into stepped pyramid forms and covered in intricate carved geometric and figural motifs, a distinctive Sindhi funerary style found only in this region.
24.8639, 67.2714
Ruins
Martand Sun Temple
The ruins of an 8th-century temple to the sun god Surya, set on a plateau in the Anantnag district of Kashmir. Built by the Karkota dynasty and destroyed in the early 15th century on the orders of Sultan Sikandar Shah Miri, its roofless colonnade and central shrine still command sweeping views over the valley.
33.7456, 75.2203
Ruins
Unakoti
A remote hillside shrine in the forests of Tripura, northeast India, covered in colossal rock-cut carvings dated to around the 7th to 9th centuries. A Shiva head roughly 30 feet tall, giant Ganesha figures and scattered temple ruins lie half-swallowed by jungle, and much of the sculpture is thought to remain buried and unexcavated.
24.3170, 92.0670
Ruins
Timgad
A remarkably complete Roman colonial city founded by the emperor Trajan around 100 AD on the edge of the Sahara in the Aurès region of Algeria. Sacked by Berber tribes in the 5th century and finally abandoned after the Arab conquests, it was swallowed by sand for around a thousand years, preserving its strict grid plan, forum, theatre and triumphal arch.
35.4842, 6.4686
Cemetery
Mizdakhan Necropolis
An ancient burial ground in Karakalpakstan, western Uzbekistan, spread over a hill beside the ruined Gyaur-Kala fortress near Khojeyli. In use for well over a thousand years, it holds mausolea, crumbling tombs and the pilgrimage shrine of Mazlumkhan-Sulu, and remains one of the region's most visited sacred sites.
42.4010, 59.3886