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

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

A sandstone lamp post in Mumbai's business district honors the war efforts of the Port Trust and its employees who fell during World War I.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

A grassroots collection showcasing personal objects of family members separated by the post-1971 border between India and Pakistan.