A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.