Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.