This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

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

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

Outstanding, eerie frescoes and decorations fill this 19th-century monastery.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."