A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

Former host to the World Elephant Polo Championships.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A palace destined to never house a king.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?