A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

This unique formation appears as though an asteroid landed on the forest.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.