This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

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

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

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

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.