Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Though these human-made islands were constructed as an escape for the wealthy, they rarely see many visitors.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.