The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.