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Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."