One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.