Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.