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Abandoned Research Stations

Peenemünde, Germany

Peenemünde Army Research Center

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

Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Abandoned Pacific Barrier Radar III

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

Mesmerizing Photos of Abandoned Structures in the High Arctic

Old mining towns and research shacks lie in ruins in the Svalbard islands.

Anika Burgess September 28, 2016

Leningradskaya

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

East Base

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

Mawson's Huts

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

Base W

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

Permanently Closed

Truro, Massachusetts

North Truro Air Force Station

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

Deception Island

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