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The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.