A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

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

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.