A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

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

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.