This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

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

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.