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The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.