City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana
Opening a grand, million dollar church always seems like a good idea at the time. Such beautiful structures can bolster a community and give a unique sense of place to an area. Of course when the local...
View ArticleShades of Death Road in Great Meadows, New Jersey
In rural Warren County, New Jersey the darkly named Shades of Death Road has unsurprisingly accrued a number of terrifying legends and seems to be spawning more supposedly haunted locales as the years...
View ArticleLeather Archives & Museum in Chicago, Illinois
Cataloguing the history of both the BDSM and leather culture through artifacts, equipment, and a massive library of literature, Chicago's Leather Archives & Museum is more than just a collection of...
View ArticleTomb of Jesus Christ in Shingo, Japan
The small village of Shingo in Japan's Aomori Prefecture is known not only for its cattle ranches and yam production, but thanks to one rogue cosmoarcheologist the village is also home to the supposed...
View ArticleLos Feliz Murder Mansion in Los Angeles, California
On the night of December 6, 1959, in a mansion that sits on a Los Feliz hilltop, Dr. Harold Perelson struck his wife to death with a hammer, severely beat his 18-year-old daughter, and then ended his...
View ArticleThe Black Mailbox in Alamo, Nevada
On a deserted stretch of road between Alamo and Rachel, Nevada known as "The Extraterrestrial Highway," there is a lone mailbox with the names of two recipients; the unalarming "Steve Medlin," and then...
View ArticleRush Ghost Town in Yellville, Arkansas
While zinc mining in Arkansas has dried up, its history is lives on in the ghost town of Rush, the only standing remnants of an industry that once dominated the area. Rush is a ghost town located in...
View ArticleThe Arctic Henge in Raufarhöfn, Iceland
Located in one of Iceland's most remote northern villages, the Arctic Henge is a colossal piece of stone construction that, when finished, will make Stonehenge look like amateur hour. Started in 1996,...
View ArticleUntitled (Johnson Pit #30) in Seattle, Washington
As post-industrial America looked back at much of the landscape they had wrought, the number of unappealing tracts of blasted land and gravel pits must have seemed a bit staggering.To counteract this,...
View ArticleOld Branch Davidian Swimming Pool in Waco , Texas
While the Branch Davidian religion is still around, it is now known only as, "The Branch" after one of their leaders, David Koresh famously staged a 51-day standoff with the FBI that resulted in a...
View ArticleHound Tor in Devon, England
Hound Tor is a outcropping of limestone rock in England's Dartmoor National Park, and while they might not look much like dogs the legend of their origin is that they were hounds turned to stone by...
View ArticleBucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Arizona
Around the 1880's the town of Holbrook, Arizona was a wretched hive of scum and villainy where outlaws and cowboys could indulge their drinking, gambling, whoring, and general rakishness. Needless to...
View ArticleJumbo Kingdom in Aberdeen, Hong Kong
A small trend of floating restaurants has built up in Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor over the years, but none is so large or iconic as the bustling Chinese wonderland, Jumbo Kingdom.One of the largest...
View ArticleHinterkaifeck Memorial in Ingolstadt, Germany
It was during the cold spring of 1922 that German farmer Andreas Gruber and his family were brutally bludgeoned and hacked to death with a rusty farm tool, but despite nearly a century of...
View ArticleChildren are the Victims of Adult Vices in Moscow, Russia
In 2001, Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin constructed an unusual sculpture, "Children are the Victims of Adult Vices," depicting two unaware children playing as 13 evil statues surround them.The 13...
View ArticleSplit Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors, Minnesota
This historic lighthouse along Minnesota's North Shore is no longer lit save for one night a year on the anniversary of Gordon Lightfoot's meal ticket, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.The cliffside...
View ArticleBåstnäs Car Cemetery in Värmland, Sweden
The reclusive owners and curators of the car cemetery hidden in the woods near the Swedish/Norwegian border don;t seem to mind photographers snapping pictures, but that same laissez faire attitude does...
View ArticleForest Haven Asylum in Laurel, Maryland
Many abandoned buildings take on a feeling of malevolence only thanks to their decay, but the rotting complex of buildings that was once the Forest Haven Asylum was known as a place of death and abuse...
View ArticleKrafla in Myvatn, Iceland
Located on the other side of the Ring Road from Námaskarð, the Krafla Caldera is a 10km long, 2km deep active volcanic zone on the boundary between the American and Eurasian tectonic plates, and a key...
View ArticleHenkerhaus in Nuremberg, Germany
In the 15th century, being a state executioner was a grim but rewarding gig even coming with its own lovely little residence overlooking the Pegnitz river. The history of the position and its strangely...
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