This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

One of the tallest waterfalls in Africa is also home to a population of monkeys who enjoy the waters and the occasional guest.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.