A big museum full of little worlds.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.