The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.