Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A cave interior in the shape of the ancient rhinoceros, created by lava cooling around its carcass.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.