Orlando, Florida
Discovery Island
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
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Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Seaview, England
This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Suakin, Sudan
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.
Rochester, New York
An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.
Chicago, Illinois
An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Schleswig, Germany
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Hanover, Germany
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.