Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.

This amazing medieval fortress stands atop a promontory along the famous Cinque Terre.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A small graveyard is hidden in the midst of a bustling university campus.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.