Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A white oak with property rights.