This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

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

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

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

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.