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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

This former rail stop in Utah was abandoned, repopulated by some nostalgic friends, and now is home to a single DIY aviator who lives in a hangar.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

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

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.