Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

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

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

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

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The world's first nuclear power plant is open to visitors looking to role-play a meltdown.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.