The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.