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The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

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

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.