This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.