Ransom Canyon, Texas
Robert Bruno’s Steel House
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
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Ransom Canyon, Texas
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
Norfolk, Virginia
A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.
Lonaconing, Maryland
A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.
Rome, New York
A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.
Washington, D.C.
The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.
Washington, D.C.
A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
Takoma Park, Maryland
The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Delmar, Maryland
The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.
Washington, D.C.
These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
Washington, D.C.
This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.
Washington, D.C.
A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.
Cumberland, Maryland
Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."
Mexico City, Mexico
This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.
Washington, D.C.
An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.
Cumberland, Maryland
This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.
Lewes, Delaware
The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.
Lewes, Delaware
World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.