The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.