A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

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

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

America's first public mental health facility.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.