A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An important Mayan religious and trading center dating back to 200 BC.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."