The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Inside the Wayne County airport is an amazing collection of lights and sounds.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.