A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

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

A replica of a beloved, delicately-balanced granite boulder.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

It’s said this crypt was the setting for the tragic finale of the Shakespeare play.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

For centuries, this large Roman villa remained hidden thanks to the eruption that buried nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.