21.Xieshan

21. A boat lies stranded on the cracked bed of a dry area of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province, on May 4, 2011.
2011年5月4日，在华东地区江西省的鄱阳湖，一条小木船搁浅在鞋山干涸的湖床上。

22.Arizona

22. A paved road is surrounded by weeds in an unfinished subdivision in Coolidge, Arizona, on December 6, 2010.
2010年12月6日，美国亚利桑那州库利奇一条未完工的公路项目，两边杂草丛生。

23.Georgia

23. A monument to Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin, in front of an abandoned Soviet-era factory in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 31, 2011.
2011年5月31日，格鲁尼亚第比利斯，列宁雕像矗立在一家废弃的苏联时代工厂前方。

24.Columbia

24. A long-abandoned farmhouse sits in open fields near Osoyoos, British Columbia, on September 24, 2011. British Columbia has one of the largest collection of ghost towns or derelict communities in the country. Many are past mining dreams that harvested copper, silver and gold and are either gone without a trace or lie in ruins ravaged by time.
2011年9月24日，加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省奥索尤斯，一个长期被遗弃的农舍矗立在原野里。不列颠哥伦比亚省的鬼城数量居加拿大前列，这些曾经的矿城在经历过采矿梦的繁荣时期收获了大量黄铜银黄金等，也随着开采的结束遭到遗弃变成了现在的鬼城。

25.Michigan

25. The abandoned and decaying manufacturing plant of Packard Motor Car in Detroit, Michigan, on April 2, 2011.
2011年4月2日，美国密西根州的底特律，帕卡德汽车的废弃工厂。

26.Sirte

26. An abandoned airport stairway, left on a road near the airport in Sirte, Libya, on September 29, 2011.
2011年9月29日，利比亚锡尔特，一个登机梯被遗弃在机场附近的公路上。

27.California

27. The Jamesburg Earth Station, in Cachagua Valley, near Carmel, California, on February 23, 2012. The earth station, which helped bring Apollo 11's first images from the moon, was an important link for the nation's television, telephone and military networks from 1968 to 2002.
2012年2月23日，位于美国加利福尼亚州卡梅尔附近的科尔查瓜山谷，詹姆斯伯格地面接收站的天线。这个卫星天线曾经接收了“阿波罗11”号从月球上传回来的第一批图像，并在1968年至2002年间充当了美国电视、电话和军事网络的一条重要关系纽带。

28.Dakota

28. An abandoned barn, submerged near Great Bend, North Dakota, on April 12, 2011. The Red River was spreading out in a record swath across broad stretches of rural North Dakota and Minnesota.
2011年4月12日，美国北达科他州大本德，一个遗弃的谷仓浸泡在红河的河水里。红河河水漫延了北达科他州和明尼苏达州广阔的农村地区。

29.Nevada

29. The site of the demolished Frontier casino sits vacant on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 2, 2011. Across this hardest-hit Western state, a battle of perceptions is being waged over whether Nevada is on the edge of economic recovery, or still falling four years after the collapse of its mighty housing, tourism and construction industries.
2011年12月2日，美国内华达州的拉斯维加斯大道，Frontier赌场酒店的旧址已经不复当年的辉煌。在经济危机爆发使得当地的房地产、旅游和建筑工业崩溃的4年后，这个遭受打击最严重的美国西部州的人们仍在争论，拉斯维加斯的经济到底处在复苏边缘还是继续走下坡路。

30.London

30. Fog engulfs HMS Belfast on the River Thames during the early morning rush hour in London, on March 15, 2012.
2012年3月15日，伦敦早高峰时间，泰晤士河上的“贝尔法斯特”号巡洋舰被大雾淹没。

31.Memphis

31. The old detective's offices in the Memphis, Tennessee police station, on November 30, 2011. Police officials say their headquarters is overcrowded, but a plan to renovate older quarters is stalled. The old city police station has sat vacant for 30 years.
2011年11月30日，美国田纳西州孟菲斯一家荒废了30年之久的警察局。警察说他们的总部太过拥挤，但是去翻新总部的计划一直在搁浅。这个老的警察局已经空荡荡30年了。

32.Atafona

32. A home is covered with sand on Atafona beach in Atafona, about 225 miles (360 kilometers) north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 11, 2010. The town of Atafona is disappearing. Located in a delta in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, this small town of sand is being swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up the process of erosion. According to researchers, a total of 183 buildings have been destroyed and the Marine lighthouse moved twice in the past 30 years.
2010年11月11日，巴西阿塔福纳海滩，距离里约热内卢北面225英里（360千米）的地方，一座房屋即将被沙子吞噬。阿塔福纳小镇正在消失。阿塔福纳位于里约热内卢的一个三角洲，由于温度升高加速了侵蚀的过程，这座小城正被大海吞噬。研究人员表示当地已经有183座建筑被毁，在过去30年里小城移动了两次。

33.Indiana

33. Abandoned homes in Gary, Indiana, on March 31, 2011.
2011年3月31日，美国印第安纳州加里的一座废弃房屋。

34.Iraq

34. The sun sets behind an empty staging area in Camp Adder which was the departure point for the last U.S. military convoy to leave the country near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on December 17, 2011.
2011年12月17日，太阳落山的地方是伊拉克纳西里耶的艾德营地，最后一批美军士兵从这里撤离伊拉克。

35.SantAngelo

35. A stray dog walks in the Abruzzo region village of Villa Sant'Angelo's main square on October 20, 2010. 17 of the 450 inhabitants of Villa Sant'Angelo were killed by an earthquake that hit the region on April 6, 2009.
2010年10月20日，意大利阿布鲁佐的圣安其罗村，一条流浪狗走在空无一人的小巷。2009年4月6日当地450位居民遭地震袭击，共造成17人死亡。

36.McCluskieganj

36. An abandoned colonial mansion is surrounded by trees in McCluskieganj, India, about 40 miles northwest of Ranchi on October 24, 2011. Nearly 80 years ago, Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now the eastern state of Jharkhand, hoping to attract Anglo-Indians anxious about the impending demise of the British empire. Today, the few colonial bungalows still standing are in disrepair, the local economy survives on the back of a single school, and McCluskieganj's aging residents say the "chhotta England" (little England) they grew up in has vanished forever.
2011年10月24日，印度贾尔克汗邦的麦克拉斯基甘奇，距甘奇西北部40英里的一座废弃的殖民时代建筑，四周被大树环绕。近80年前，苏格兰后代的印第安人Ernest McCluskie，在现在贾坎德邦的东部建立了麦克拉斯基甘奇，希望吸引安格鲁-印第安人对英国王国灭亡的关注。今天，鲜见殖民风格的建筑仍然在那待修，当地的经济仅仅依靠一所学校支撑，麦克拉斯基甘奇里上了年纪的居民说他们成长时期的“chhotta England"（小英格兰）早就消失的无影无踪了。

37.Libya

37. A view of destroyed buildings along Tripoli street in central Misrata, Libya, on May 22, 2011.
2011年，5月22日，利比亚米苏拉塔，一座毁于战火的居民楼。

38.Benghazi

38. The abandoned construction site of the "New Benghazi" project in Benghazi. Libya, on June 14, 2011. Hundreds of cement mixers, cranes, and forklifts stood silent on a massive construction site among gray buildings left unfinished when Chinese workers abandoned Libya as fighting flared.
2011年6月14日，利比亚班加西一个名叫“新班加西”的住宅项目因战乱遭到遗弃。成千上百架的水泥浆搅拌机、起重机和铲车安静地呆在那个建筑工地，自中国工人因战乱而逃离之后，建筑一直处于停工状态。

39.Bulgaria

39. Sofia's central railway station stood deserted on November 24, 2011, during a strike by rail workers in Bulgaria.
2011年11月24日，保加利亚首都索非亚，火车站因工人罢工变得冷冷清清。

40.Komoshtitsa

40. The main gate of an abandoned cooperative farm in the village of Komoshtitsa, some 100 kms (60 miles) north of Sofia, Bulgaria, on December 5, 2011.
2011年12月5日，索非亚北部大约100公里（60英里）的一个村落，曾经的合作农场只留下一道大门。

41.Spain

41. A cat sits in a deserted street in Peleas de Abajo, in northwestern Spain, on March 8, 2012. Decades of overspending and accumulated interest on unpaid debt has put Peleas de Abajo 4.6 million euros ($6 million) in the red and the mayor claims it is now the most indebted town in Spain. The town's debt per inhabitant is nearly 20,000 euros for every resident.
2012年3月8日，西班牙西北部城市珀莱斯-德-阿巴乔，一只小猫蹲坐在空无一人的街道上。几十年的透支消费和欠款利息累计让该市背负460万欧元（600万美元）债务，市长称他们是西班牙负债最多的城市。据统计，当地人均负债达到近2万欧元。