This giant statue pays homage to this temple's furry residents who keep the landscape pristine.

A wooden prison doesn't sound like a good idea, yet this abandoned 1950s detention center still stands today.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Bizarre Cavern.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

A rural colonial settlement that contains the remains of a store and cooper.

The oldest military monument in the United States.