Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

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.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.