Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.