The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

These hilltop ruins of a forgotten Buddhist monastery flourished in Antiquity from trade with the Roman Empire.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

The whiskey producer's archives includes a historical list of infractions committed by and associated penalties exacted upon employees.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

Cut into a sheer cliff face, these stairs are the only way to reach a secluded Scottish harbor.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Dedicated to the writer who immortalized the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance of those who died in wars.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.