Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

This quiet area of Yunnan Province annually transforms into an unbelievable sea of yellow flowers.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.