Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.