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Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.