This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

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The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

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

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The loneliest island in New York.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.