A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.