This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground