Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

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

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

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

After the state would not recreate this beloved rock formation, three New Hampshire brothers took things into their own hands.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

This unique depiction of the Virgin Mary may be the tallest kinetic art sculpture in the world.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

These ancient pecked images are among the oldest and best-preserved in Mongolia.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.