The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Opened as part of the New Deal, the training facility now features World War II-era structures and a pylon that once stood at the World Trade Center.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.