Pic of the Day: The Ruins of the Future

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Hot on the heels of The Atlantic’s trend piece on the growing popularity of travel to desolate locations like Roswell and Chernobyl, our friends at Gadling have put together a photo roundup of 10 abandoned cities that might strike your fancy. Our favorite of the bunch? The Sanzhi District of Taiwan, which is home to abandoned pod-shaped buildings (also known as “UFO houses”) like the one above; originally built back in the ’70s, the strange structures were intended to be part of a resort marketed at US military officers, but funding fell through.