Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This ancient city - home to nine civilizations - is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

Natural rock formation, or biblical artifact that saved Earth's wildlife two by two?

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

The ruins of a bombed medieval village memorialize the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

An ancient church on a tiny island covered in stone bible stories has controversially been turned into a museum.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.