An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

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

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.