A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

Unique pagan culture in three extremely remote mountain valleys.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

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

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.