Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.