This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

This "Palace of Purification" has made many film appearances as a dark and sinister headquarters.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.