The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.