This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

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

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.