A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.