Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.