What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

The largest collection of historical roller skates in the world.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.