The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Unchanged for decades, World War II-era bullet holes and nostalgic ghost signs still haunt this desolate train station.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

On one of the tiniest islands in the Caribbean lies a nearly 300-year-old syangogue.

Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.

The colorful soil of Iran’s "Rainbow Island" attracts artists and nature lovers.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

An abandoned mountain village in Habib surrounded by walnut, apricot, and pomegranate trees.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

The cluster of igloo-like domes forms the remains of an ancient burial ground.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

The wilderness of northern Sweden is full of shelters to protect people from sounding rockets returning from space.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.