Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Volcanically heated hot springs.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

The coldest city in the world.

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

"The country that ate itself."

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.