A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Did the legendary Scottish knight William Wallace actually take refuge here after a major battle?

Many miles south of Loch Ness, a similarly-named sea monster stands at the center of a roundabout.

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.