This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

Egyptian Revival obelisks still rise over the old mine shafts.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.