These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

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

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.