The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

The loneliest island in New York.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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