An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.