The Island of Forgotten Diseases

On the desolate central Asian island of Vozrozhdeniye – or Vozrozhdeniya – near the south rim of the shrinking Aral Sea, you'll find "the remains of the world's largest biological-warfare testing ground."

As The New York Times reported back in 2002, for nearly four decades Vozrozhdeniye Island was "a practice field for the most hideous kind of warfare."

The whole site is now abandoned.