A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.