These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

“The oddest pub in South Africa,” inspired by a practical joke.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

A massive, secret marina for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A favorite with sightseers, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.