This small but lovely sinkhole lake is the last remnant of a great prehistoric water basin.

These nearly 500-year-old scenes are largely faded by the ravages of time, yet still maintain their power to horrify.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

These strikingly colorful paintings were created by a mysterious Mesoamerican civilization.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.