Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.

The abandoned palace stands as a wounded but proud beacon of Afghan hope.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

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