Walking by this fence is like strolling along a portal to various fictional worlds.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

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

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.