A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

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

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.