An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

What killed this humpback whale is a mystery, but its remains have become legendary.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.