This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.