This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.