A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

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

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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

Yo, Adrian!

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.