This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.