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Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

A 200-year-old tavern challenges guests to finish a glass of wine while hanging from a ceiling beam.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.