The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Air-raid tunnels hidden beneath this opulent hotel provided shelter and an escape route—and one of the world's longest slides.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

This Roman underground canal was the longest tunnel ever built until the late 19th-century.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

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

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.