This installation turns abstract economics into a stark, public spectacle.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

A dazzling work by a Pop art legend hangs in one of the world’s busiest subway stations.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

From this scenic rockface, you can still see the paths Western pioneers followed.

An unfinished revolving restaurant on a church campus towers over suburban Northeast Ohio

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

The origin of these small islands' sweet names is a local mystery.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."