Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.