This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.