For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

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

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A decaying garage hidden amid the dense forest is all that remains of a once-prosperous dairy farm.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

Rumor has it the hot dog stand was targeted by two Russian nuclear missiles.

An eccentric company offers eccentric millionaires the opportunity to have spaceflight-related experiences.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.