"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.

A lasting remnant of The Blitz.

A rare and unique example of an 18th-century door latch calls this restaurant home.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

This residence straddles a border between Belgium and the Netherlands.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

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.

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

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.