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Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

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

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

New Brunswick's tallest mountain is the highest point in all the Maritimes.