The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.