This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.