A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

A rare remnant of an exposition that took place nearby at the end of the 19th-century.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

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

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.