This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.