This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

A replica that won't float away.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.