Visiting Göbekli Tepe: The World’s Oldest Temple
Göbekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 6,000 years and was built by people with no farms, pottery or metal tools.
Category Disaster & Abandoned
Visiting Kolmanskop: Namibia’s Diamond Ghost Town
In 1908 a railway worker found a diamond in the Namib sand. Within decades, the boomtown built on it was abandoned to the desert.
Visiting Hashima Island: The World’s Most Crowded Island
Our guide to Hashima Island, a speck of concrete jutting out from the East China Sea, which has a long and complicated history.