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

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.