Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

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

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

An archaeological site believed to be the burial place of the "mother of us all."

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.