The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A picturesque example of brute-force engineering conquering nature.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

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