A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

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

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.