Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Once the center of food production for this small town.

In the recreated studio of a visionary artist, a stone that may be more than meets the eye.

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.