If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The remains of a medieval wall discovered in the basement of a jewelry store.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

One of the world's southernmost bars.