Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.