World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

World's most expensive home.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."