This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.