This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.