The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

An underground city of salt.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

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

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.