Cary, North Carolina
WPTF AM Radio Building
This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”
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Cary, North Carolina
This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”
Gothenburg, Sweden
A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.
Staten Island, New York
This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Geneva, Florida
From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.
Füssen, Germany
Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.
Arlington, Virginia
A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.
Tennille, Georgia
An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.
Edisto Island, South Carolina
This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.
Alexandria, Egypt
A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.
Memphis, Tennessee
The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.
Glastonbury, England
A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Beacon, New York
Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.
Beacon, New York
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Beacon, New York
A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.
Queens, New York
A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.
New York, New York
This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.
New York, New York
A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.
New York, New York
Wooden pavers represent a 17th-century barrier that gave Wall Street its name.
New York, New York
After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.