A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."