Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

China's biggest e-waste village.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

This Romanian village may have been drowned, but it is long from forgotten.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

One of China's last communal villages wears its ideals on its sleeve.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The innovative Nigerian floating school that may just be a glimpse into the future of design in a world of troubling climate changes.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

A puppy slum that protects canines from the cruelties of the human slums.

Historic slum of Tartu.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.