This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A palace destined to never house a king.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.