The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.