The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Discarded animal sculptures stand forgotten by an abandoned aquarium and water park in Bosque de Chapultepec.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This Ecuadorian cemetery is home to a jaw-dropping topiary wonderland.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.