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The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

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

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A replica that won't float away.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.