This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A medieval castle was used for centuries as a hemp farm.