A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

An abandoned suspension bridge on the Falkland Islands is crumbling into the water.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.