A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Raised illegally, Reggie now lives at the Los Angeles Zoo after authorities spent years tracking him down.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.