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Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The largest coin pyramid in the world is a carefully balanced stack of over 1,000,000 pieces.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.