An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

In a park on Taiwan's rugged Eastern coast, a marker celebrates a glorious sight from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere.

The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

A land of debatable treasure.

A site outside Pedraza, Spain where a plaque tells a tale of seven-legged creatures that were said to have once lived in the area—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A "Minnesota-style" pizza parlor in the Scandinavian heart of Seattle.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.