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Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

Home of mutant livestock.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.