Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

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

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.