Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

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

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

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

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.