This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.