Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Art and armour fill every inch of this rich kid's Italian villa.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

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

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The now-abandoned Fascist summer colony served a dark purpose during World War II.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

This long-abandoned village sits across a narrow gorge from a still-inhabited settlement that was once its twin.