The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A tangible and sobering reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Villagers have recycled bomber fuel tanks from the Vietnam War and turned them into very, very strong boats.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.