A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

Old and brave breed of warhorses known for their elegant, curved ears.

The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

The largest tiger reserve in India is a vast expanse dotted with ancient ruins of Nagarjuna Viswa Vidyalayam.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.