This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The magic's in the hole!

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.