A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.