An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The largest camel market in West Africa

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

An attractive alpine lake at 8,400 feet that is accessible via a paved road.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Once a meeting point for great thinkers, and the midpoint of the country.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.