Trunyan, Indonesia
Trunyan
One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.
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Trunyan, Indonesia
One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Lome, Togo
The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
Estella, Spain
A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.
Evansville, Indiana
Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.
Hương Thủy, Vietnam
Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Glasgow, Scotland
The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Hartford, Connecticut
An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.
Middletown, Connecticut
A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.
New York, New York
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."
Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Waldoboro, Maine
Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.