Maidstone, England
Kent County Lunatic Asylum (Oakwood Hospital)
This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.
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Maidstone, England
This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Løkken, Denmark
An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Paro, Bhutan
The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Ferrara di Monte Baldo, Italy
This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.
Haspra, Ukraine
A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.
Roccascalegna, Italy
This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Civita, Italy
This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Santa Barbara, California
Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.
Utrera, Spain
The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Province of Salerno, Italy
Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.
Barcelona, Spain
The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Aurland, Norway
A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.
Aurland, Norway
Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.