The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

"Satisfying" is a good way to describe these beautifully aligned rows of Spanish mills.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.