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Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.