Nauru, a tiny island country in Micronesia, was once one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of GDP per capita, ...

Imagine that one of New York City's many islands became abandoned, and you came back ... Place in New York City," and Payne has shared some photos from the project with us here.

Governor's Island, just off the southern tip of Manhattan and its financial district has sat abandoned since 1996 when the former federal run military and then Coast Guard base was closed.