Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This museum explores the history of stickers and is home to RePEELed, an exhibit featuring sticker art from around the world.

A southern Swedish island is home to the last ERSTA artillery battery, meant to protect the shoreline during the Cold War.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.