Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

The saddest little diner in New York.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.