Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

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

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.

This small island was the first National Wildlife Refuge ever created in the United States.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.