The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

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

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."