Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

These moss-covered medieval ruins tower atop the smallest of Ireland's Aran Islands.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

These lamps were created to expel sewer gases after an event known as The Great Stink.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

The "Greatest Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.