Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.