When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.