The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.