These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.