Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.