Lost Wonders

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This small town bank is very aware of its name thank you very much.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

If your school was decorated with trippy graffiti, served ambrosial coffee, and was frequented by mimes, it might have been similar to this groovy cafe.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This parking garage has given itself over to graffiti artists and the neighborhood can't thank them enough.

A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.