During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

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

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This canyon is named for a unique geologic formation where the river vanishes underground near the mouth of the canyon and reappears farther down.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.