Ovid, New York
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
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Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Ashibetsu, Japan
A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
San Francisco, California
A library and museum dedicated to typography.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
Barrow, Alaska
The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.
Bragar, Scotland
A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.
Los Angeles, California
Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.
Tonopah, Nevada
An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Huntington Beach, California
This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
Sparks, Nevada
Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".
Great Falls, Montana
"Polynesia on the Plains."
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.
Vernazza, Italy
Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
Sofia, Bulgaria
"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Bristol, England
A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.
Berlin, Germany
A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.