Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Burial site of the world's most widely known researcher on the endangered mountain gorilla.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.