This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Remnants from a time before electricity.

Legend holds that this knife serves as a chilling reminder of the deadly rivalry between two local builder brothers.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

Legend says this demonic carving inside a medieval cathedral was one of Satan's minions.