1. Penthouse Palace

A porn baron establishes a hedonistic paradise in hopes of averting nuclear cata... More

2. Castle Kingdom

Developers dream up a neighborhood full of castles, thermal baths and beautiful ... More

3. Rock 'N' Roll Island

Seeking a peaceful, isolated place to record music, a Beatles legend builds a st... More

4. K-Pop Dreamland

Full of overgrown weeds and rusted-out rides, this amusement park was forced to ... More

5. The True Cross

A hotel that once served Hollywood's elite is converted into an interrogation ce... More

6. Blues Prison

A dilapidated prison was once home to medical experiments and a prison riot -- b... More

7. Fake News Fortress

Graffiti scratched into the walls of a military base on the British coast sheds ... More

8. Turkish Wonderland

In the Turkish capital, an ambitious new theme park is plagued by budget problem... More

9. The Montauk Conspiracy

Conspiracies swirl around an abandoned military base in Long Island, where it's ... More

10. The Ruins of Troy

These hilltop ruins are believed to be the site of one of the world's most endur... More

11. Hell Island

On a picturesque island off the coast of Brazil, an abandoned penal colony was o... More

12. The Ruins of Archaeopolis

This fortress once stood between the Ancient Roman and Persian Empires, both a m... More

13. Korea's Joan of Arc

A teenage girl in Korea is martyred in prison and becomes a national hero. Today... More

14. Gunslingers and Gangsters

Notorious gunslinger John Dillinger once pulled off a daring escape from this sm... More

15. Gangbusters and Gun Battles

A building in Colorado is still marked with bullet holes from a Wild West shooto... More

16. Propaganda Palace

In the former Soviet Union, this theater and others like it were used to influen... More