An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

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

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 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.

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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.