Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.