The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.