Ojai, California
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Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Los Angeles, California
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
Camarillo, California
Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Moscow, Russia
This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt
An endless sea of white conical domes.
Kabul, Afghanistan
What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.
Manama, Bahrain
Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.
Bahrain
This centuries-old tree tells an unusual tale of vegetation and fertility in the desert.
Baghdad, Iraq
This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.
Hillah, Iraq
Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.
Ludlow, California
One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.
Nelson, Nevada
A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Ventura, California
Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.