An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This iconic water tower and failed bandstand is open for panoramic views once a year.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.