A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.