An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.