For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

The historic building's ornate stained glass fixture has survived the devastating 1906 earthquake, ensuing fires, and multiple redevelopment attempts.

This redwood is a historic landmark, a town’s namesake, and the dancing sideline symbol of Stanford University.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

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

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

This lavish abode was once the home of the inventor of "Gorilla Pants."

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.