Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

The birthplace of professional hockey on the shores of Portage Lake.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.