A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

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

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

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.