The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

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

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.