Morpeth, England
Cragside
This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.
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Morpeth, England
This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Auburn, Indiana
A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.
Leominster, Massachusetts
This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.
Brooklyn, New York
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Syracuse, New York
This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.
New York, New York
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
Russia
The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.
Los Angeles, California
This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
New York, New York
During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.
Charlestown, Indiana
Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.
Denver, Colorado
This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Chongqing, China
Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.
Howes Cave, New York
Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
New York, New York
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Batavia, New York
A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.