World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

A magical, if a bit tacky, 1960s castle conjures up medieval fairytales and Greek mythology.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

The eerie ruins of this feudal fortress witnessed the execution of 60 conspirators in 1387.

This natural gas vent certainly earns its name as the smallest volcano in Italy.

A rare double mill nestled along the banks of the Aa river.