Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The loneliest island in New York.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.