Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The bulletproof cross stands at the only operational Christian cemetery in Pakistan's most populated city.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

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

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

An outsider art duo's yard has been turned into a whimsical public gallery.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.