Places Tragedy Wants to Go

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.