The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

WWII artifacts, including the building itself.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.