A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

The world's oldest grape-producing vine has survived four centuries of turmoil and even has its own anthem.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.