Staten Island, New York
Remains of Fort Wadsworth
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
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Staten Island, New York
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.
Los Angeles, California
A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.
Hörby, Sweden
A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar
This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.
Jacksonville, Oregon
Sasqu(w)atch out!
Ali Sadr, Iran
This vast, water-filled underground labyrinth can only be toured by boat.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Big Major Cay, Bahamas
In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.
New York, New York
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.
Nye County, Nevada
A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Nagasaki, Japan
A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.