A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

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

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.