This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.