This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

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

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

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

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.