A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

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

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

What is the Thing?

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.