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After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.