The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.