The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

This whimsically named Vietnamese stream is closer to a walkway than a waterway.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

A palace destined to never house a king.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.