Kansas City, Missouri
SubTropolis
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
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Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Westcliffe, Colorado
Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Camden, New Jersey
The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.
Walker, West Virginia
Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Palencia, Spain
The camera-toting gargoyle juts out from the exterior of a Gothic cathedral.
Bunnell, Florida
Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.
Milford, New Hampshire
The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Detroit, Michigan
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
Alpine, Texas
A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.
Aswan, Egypt
This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.
Zug, Switzerland
Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.
Albany, Georgia
The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.
Larne, Northern Ireland
From Vikings to nationwide rebellions, this castle has seen its fair share of warfare.
Portland, Oregon
A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.
London, England
This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.
Cardross, Scotland
One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.