Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.