An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

The church is gone, but the graves and legends remain.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

The church and nearby castle are all that remains of a medieval village, mysteriously abandoned.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

The ruins of a 12th-century seaside castle on the southwest coast of Scotland.

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

A chemical factory damaged by two earthquakes and an explosion that became abandoned after bankruptcy.

An old mining site that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

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

The room where the famous commander of the Catholic forces was murdered by Irish assassins during the Thirty Years' War has been reconstructed with many of his original possessions.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.