One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.