Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

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

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.