This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This statue in Plaza San Francisco commemorates a beloved figure from 1950s Havana.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

Roam the cradle of the Cuban Revolution with life-sized dinosaurs.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

The largest masonic lodge in Cuba.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Now a pedestrian bridge, this was once part of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran along the east coast of Kauai.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.