Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

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

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.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Destructive children, start your engines.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The whole world in one water tank.