For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

This abandoned bunker looks out over the Atlantic from its clifftop perch.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This remarkable parking garage in Darmstadt has lived several lives and still contains remnants of its World War I past.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Stained-glass windows inspired by Vincent van Gogh's paintings decorate this church in the town where the artist's career began.

Locals believe this abandoned ruin on the outskirts of Bucharest is haunted.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

A quiet Sicilian village is home to a cafe that had an important role in "The Godfather."

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This bike path traverses the treetops.