A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.