A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This hidden museum examines the complex history of the country's law enforcement.

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.