Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.