A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.