A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.