The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.