Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

A micronation of epic proportions.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.