The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.