Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

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

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.