This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

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

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.