The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Ancient temple is home to centuries of art and spiritual artifacts.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.