This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

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

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

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

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.