Volterra, Italy
Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
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Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Glendale, California
Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Summerville, South Carolina
First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.
North Charleston, South Carolina
This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Charleston, South Carolina
Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Folly Beach, South Carolina
Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.
Hobro, Denmark
A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Frederikshavn, Denmark
The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Bournemouth, England
A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Los Angeles, California
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.
Los Angeles, California
A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.