An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

According to the legend, this structure was built in a single night with the help of the devil.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

An architectural marvel that dates back to the zenith of Indian architecture.

A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

The final resting place of the famous violinist, after his corpse was denied a proper Catholic burial for decades.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A witch wreaks ruinous revenge on this ancient church with her "enchanted leg."

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.