A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

An immersive projection art installation uses sound, scale, and light to take visitors inside classic works of art.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.