This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.