In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.