A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

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

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The loneliest island in New York.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

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

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

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.