The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This collection of reclaimed landmines acts as both an exhibition of their deadly history and as a shelter for children affected by them.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.