A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

This unique structure allowed boats to bypass underwater mine barriers in the channel to enter the harbor.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

In Tulsa's Oil Capital historic district, even the bus station is "fauxback" Art Deco.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Five painted skeletons are hiding behind a church in this tiny village in the Italian Alps.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

Visit the final resting place of a potential pirate at this historic burial site.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

This sculpture is one of many stunning features along Tampa’s Riverwalk.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This 18th-century water provider for Aranjuez was refurbished in 2013 only to be neglected again.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.