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A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

An island said to shake with the current.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.