This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

These museum grounds are a Dalai Lama-declared peace oasis.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.