The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.