Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).