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A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

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.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.