Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.