Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

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.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

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

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.