Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

Spirits from these lakes are said to produce the local weather and odd phenomena as they bicker between themselves.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

The hottest place on the planet.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

World's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of Christ.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.