A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.