A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.