Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

These sprawling mines once served as a source of plaster and today serve as a storage facility.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.