The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.