This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Mexican food and folk art.