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.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.