This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

At this faithfully preserved medina off the Moroccan tourist circuit you can walk through six centuries of history in one day.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.