A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

The ruins of a medieval castle that once belonged to one of the most powerful families in the Netherlands.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

The deepest metro station in the world.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.