An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A statue honoring Frank Sidebottom, a beloved cartoon figure from Timperley.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.