A private home museum with a collection of over 5,000 Peranakan artifacts.

These quaint cottages feature built-in signaling devices for fishermen.

This slice of 1960s Danish modernism does not conform to the Oxford college stereotypes.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

The remnants of a fictional Viking village film set now serve as an educational and historical hotspot.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Pripyat, now long-abandoned.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Unchanged for decades, World War II-era bullet holes and nostalgic ghost signs still haunt this desolate train station.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.