A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Antiques by the Bay.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.