"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

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

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This Tuscan church contains a gallery of over 700 ex-votos depicting near-death experiences.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.