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 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.

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

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.