On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

A replica that won't float away.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

Large pioneer village showcasing life during boom times.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.