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The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.