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This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

This Canadian hunting lodge is a long way from home.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

Conspiracy theories and occult legends surround this mysterious natural rock formation.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.