Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.