The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.