A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.