A once-abandoned school building converted into a fantastical multi-level art installation and haven for Appalachian artists.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.