Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

One of the oldest of its kind.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.