When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.