Abandoned Research Stations

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

These abandoned huts still hold the remains of an early 20th century Australian researcher's work.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.