Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.

Once home to more than 50 displays of freshwater fish.

The ruins of the second of three churches dedicated to the saint in a touristic Scottish town.

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Pause in an abandoned hydroelectric station, now overrun with wildlife, to consider a thought-provoking poem.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

These unusual stone structures are actually fish traps crafted by an ancient civilization.

If you've ever wondered at which cycle of the moon you’re supposed to spread manure produced by your guinea pigs, this is the place for you.

This 12-inch-tall wooden sculpture of a winged Virgin Mary has inspired much devotion and countless replicas.