A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

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