Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This historic Dutch newspaper building is covered with media-themed details—and one unrelated oddity.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.