Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

The only international border marker within the United States.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.