The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.