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A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The middle finger of modernity.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.