This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

This Russian locomotive museum was once devoted just to Lenin's funeral before expanding to encompass Moscow's entire train history.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.