Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.