If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The loneliest island in New York.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.