A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.