The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.