Author: Ryan McLachlan

Top: "Detroit" spay painted on a wall in the city's downtown. Bottom: "Bankruptcy" painted on a wall in Detroit.

Once Successful American Cities That Are Now Struggling to Survive

Swedish warship Vasa on display

Vasa: The 1600s Swedish Warship That Survived Centuries Beneath the Water

Post Card of San Francisco California, rebuilding the city. Market Street looking East, January 1908. Pacific Novelty Company, Publishers, San Francisco, California (Made in Germany). ca. 1909.

Restored Footage Shows San Francisco Just Days Before the Devastating 1906 Earthquake

Le "Palais Bulles" in 2004.

See Inside the $390 Million ‘Bubble Palace’ in the French Riviera

Blue ice texture in the caves of a glacier near Iceland, North Atlantic.

Scientists Are Baffled by Massive Mountain-Like Structures Deep Inside Earth

Background: Columns located at the side of the Western Agora. Foreground: Bronze statue of Trajan located at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, 2011.

The Remnants of the Ancient City of Laodicea on the Lycus in Turkey

Foreground: Farnese Hercules from the Baths of Caracalla. Background: Sancti Petri coastline, Cadiz, Spain, where the Temple of Hercules Gaditanus stood

Have Archaeologists Found the Temple of Hercules Gaditanus?

Charlie Chaplin in a still from The Kid (1921)

EaCa Alley: The Unassuming L.A Site That Played a Major Role in the Silent Film Era