This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.