A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

Built in 1927, this pink stucco hotel once hosted stars of Hollywood’s silent movie era. Now it's being brought back to life.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Though it may look like it’s missing its outer shell, this skeletal cast-iron tower was built to withstand wind and waves.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.