The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Haven for Cape Fur Seals, until the Ring of Death of jumping Great White Sharks arrives.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

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

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

This arch granting triumphal entrance into Antalya was designed to honor the emperor's visit.

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.

An 18th-century estate owner thought these cottages were an eyesore, so he artfully disguised them as a church.

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.