Mansions

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

One of the best-preserved wooden manor houses in Latvia, decorated with painted interior walls.

An opulent mansion that acted as the set for Appleyard Girls School in the 1975 classic film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock.'

A reconstruction of a classic mansion on the island of Delos was designed for a historian and archaeologist.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

Built around 1845, this house was occupied for 100 years, serving as a home to a prosecuting attorney, a Union Civil War general, and a wealthy socialite.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

An abandoned mansion is now a haven for urban explorers.

This building was once the most magnificent mansion in Nafplio.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

A well-studied colony of endangered bats roosts in this abandoned Victorian Gothic mansion.

This grand Georgian manor house was converted to serve as an isolation hospital before it was abandoned and destroyed.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.