The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A park in Mexico offers all the experiences of an illegal border crossing except for one: the border.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.