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

The remains of the last Gonzaga villa, a luxurious palace built in spite of an economic crisis.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A mesmerizing wonderland of salt-encrusted tree branches and pencil roots.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A fairytale-like grove with a crystal-clear spring bubbling under the shade of a massive ancient tree.

This crocodile-infested East Timor reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

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

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.