Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri State Penitentiary
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
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Jefferson City, Missouri
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Anaconda, Montana
This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.
Anaconda, Montana
A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Woodstock, New Hampshire
These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.
Omaha, Nebraska
A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Kansas City, Missouri
Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A palatial art deco restroom.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Austin, Minnesota
Ever wanted to can Spam?
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Cedar, Michigan
A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.