Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.