This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.