This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.