This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

This decaying complex from the early 1900s was once the site of massive iron and fluorite mines.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.