One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

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

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

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

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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