A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.