Santo André, Brazil
Paranapiacaba Train Station
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
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Santo André, Brazil
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Windsor, Illinois
A 30-foot-tall goat tower in central Illinois is home to a herd of Swiss ungulates.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Baltimore, Maryland
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Baltimore, Maryland
The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Point Roberts, Washington
An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.
Isla del Carmen, Mexico
This rural island is home to the ghost town of what used to be the world’s biggest salt mine.
Madison, Wisconsin
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Mobile, Alabama
Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.