The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

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

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.