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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...

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Shades 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...

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Leather 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...

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Tomb 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...

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Los 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...

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The 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...

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Rush 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...

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The 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,...

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Untitled (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,...

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Old 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...

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Hound 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...

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Bucket 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...

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Jumbo 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...

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Hinterkaifeck 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...

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Children 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...

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Split 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...

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Båstnäs 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...

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Forest 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...

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Krafla 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...

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Henkerhaus 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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