An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

The gondolas let you glimpse a bird's-eye view of one of the world's highest capital cities.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.