A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.