The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.