A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

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

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world's last remaining store of its kind.