Italy has some 5,000 ghost towns, many boasting temples covered in moss, collapsed medieval abbeys and crumbling Renaissance ...

Deep in the French countryside stands the mysterious Abandoned Castle of Light, a once-grand estate now left to decay. With ornate chandeliers, towering stained-glass windows, and golden-hued ...

The water-bound fort on an abandoned artificial island in the Gulf of Finland holds an eerie past. Fort Alexander I, also known as the "Plague Fort" near St Petersburg in Russia was built in 1845 ...

A "magnificent" castle in Scotland dating back to the reign of the "legendary" Mary Queen of Scots, has been named one of Britain's Holiday Homes of the Year by VRBO.

With no customers to keep them afloat, buildings designed to seat thousands, like the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia and the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, were abandoned. Read more ...