The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A big museum full of little worlds.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.