This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

The largest hewn stone in history.