Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

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