In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.