These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.