A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

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

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists

The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.