The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

This spacecraft-shaped water tower is only a part of the mysterious UFO mania in this Brazilian town.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.