Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.