A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.