The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.