A long-buried ancient ruin unearthed right in the middle of the city.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

This opulent 16th-century Maharaja’s palace is a unique mix of Hindu and Muslim designs.

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

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

This abandoned IDGZ station was one of 49 troposcatter stations in the NATO ACE High network.

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

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.