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

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Get your cosplay on at Portland’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.