The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A 13th-century stronghold that has fallen into ruin.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.