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Flooded Towers

Wat Saam Prasob during the dry season

18 Slightly Submerged Architectural Wonders

There's something in the water.

Jonathan Carey November 10, 2023

The House in the Loire.

Couëron, France

House in the Loire

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

The leaning lighthouse of Kiipsaare, off the island of Saaremaa, Estonia.

Saaremaa, Estonia

Kiipsaare Lighthouse

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Wat Saam Prasob during the dry season

Tambon Nong Lu, Thailand

Wat Saam Prasob, the Sunken Temple

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

Steeple in the lake

Waldeck, Germany

The Steeple in the Edersee

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

For more than 30 years, the former town of Potosi resided underwater after it was flooded by the building of a dam

Uribante, Venezuela

The Drowned Church of Potosi

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Tourlitis Lighthouse

Tourlitis Lighthouse

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

FOUND: An Underwater 16th Century Church

Sarah Laskow October 19, 2015

Igreja Sagrado Coração de Jesus

Pernambuco, Brazil

Old Petrolandia Church

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Permanently Closed

Flooded Village of Bezidu Nou

Bezidu Nou, Romania

Flooded Village of Bezidu Nou

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

Five Submerged Towers: The Only Survivors of Their Flooded Towns

Allison Meier November 12, 2013

Geamana, Romania

Lupșa, Romania

Geamana, Romania

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

Catarman, Philippines

Sunken Cemetery

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Kalyazin, Russia

Kalyazin Bell Tower

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Cross Island Chapel

Oneida, New York

Cross Island Chapel

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Vilanova de Sau, Spain

Sant Romà de Sau

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

Campanile di Curon

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.