Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

Hike up to this abandoned hotel for one of the best panoramic views of the island of Gozo.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

This Norwegian satellite station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.