Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
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Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Los Angeles, California
Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.
Los Angeles, California
The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.
Los Angeles, California
The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.
Los Angeles, California
Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
Los Angeles, California
Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Italy
A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Chittorgarh, India
A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.
Ranthambhore Fort, India
The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.
Jaisalmer, India
The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.
Shirakawa-mura, Japan
This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Naples, Italy
A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.