The abandoned buildings of a hospital that saw most of its activity during the World Wars.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

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

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

The former home of the world-famous Templeton Carpet Factory.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.