Huntsville, Alabama
Dead Children's Playground
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
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Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Florence, Alabama
This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Montgomery, Alabama
The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Tampa, Florida
These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.
Schroon Lake, New York
This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground
Putney, Vermont
A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Charlestown, Indiana
Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Lone Pine, California
The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.
Mountain View, California
One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.
Oakland, California
A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.
McCloud, California
This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.
Solvang, California
Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.
Arcadia, California
Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.
Panamint, California
The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.
San Francisco, California
This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.