A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

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