The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.