Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.