Places Added by Hannah Frishberg

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

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

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

The saddest little diner in New York.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."