Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
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Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Los Angeles, California
During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Hamburg, Germany
A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.
Ischia, Italy
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Ferentillo, Italy
Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.
Bremen, Germany
A spitting ode to a German serial killer.