Houston, Texas
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
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Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Walker, Louisiana
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.
Toomsuba, Mississippi
This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.
Jackson, Mississippi
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Cincinnati, Ohio
An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.
Cincinnati, Ohio
What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Alexandria, Virginia
A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Houston, Texas
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Silver Spring, Maryland
The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.