Los Angeles, California
Ennis House
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
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Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Syracuse, New York
This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Milton, Delaware
What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Hartford, Connecticut
This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Owosso, Michigan
The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.
Phoenix, Arizona
A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Washington, D.C.
The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Greenback, Tennessee
One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.
Lindsborg, Kansas
This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."
Wheatfield, Indiana
This bridge was constructed from the remains of the first Ferris wheel.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.