The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A historic house devoted to the teachings of a 1700's prophetess and her mysterious box of revelations.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.