A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.