Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.