Fisher Body 21 Plant in Detroit. (Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre) Symbolizing the dramatic decline of Motor City, many buildings and structures in the former manufacturing mecca of Detroit, Mich. lay in crumbling and weather-beaten ruins. In his bestselling book, "The World Without Us," Alan Weisman(who has reported from abandoned cities such as Chernobyl, Ukraine and Varosha, Cyprus) wrote thatstructures crumble as weather does unrepaired damage and other life forms create new habitats. A common structure would begin to fall...

Located twenty miles from the nearest town of Cantwell, Alaska, Igloo City is an igloo-shaped hotel that has been left to the elements for over 40 years. The odd four-story concrete hotel that was constructed in the 1970s along the Alaska Highway system, but it was never completed because it could not the meet building codes of the time. (MORE: No Vacancies – 13 Abandoned Hotels and Resorts) So big it can be seen from airplanes 30,000 feet in the...

This famous Icelandic waterfall is so spectacular, it's named for the gods. Godafoss waterfall in northern Iceland is 12 meters (40 feet) tall, with water thundering down over a 30-meter-wide (100 feet) cliff, says the North Iceland Marketing Office. But it's not just the impressive size and beauty of this waterfall that makes Godafoss such a unique site -- it's also the history. In the year 1000, Icelandic peoples made the conversion from pagan religions to Christianity. Of course this...