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The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

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

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

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

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

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

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

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

This statue of an obscure comic strip hero stands as a tribute to patriotic service and a cautionary tale about embracing fads.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.