The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

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

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.