A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Padre Delgado, a leader in the fight for Salvadoran independence, is buried in this stunning Brutalist cathedral.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

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

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A monolith replica monument of Jean Ribault commemorating the landing of the French in the New World.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

A Grand Dame of the vaudeville circuit restored to its former glory.

Before this area was filled with luxury homes, it was a movie star's 160-acre ranch and a gangster's hideout.

A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

This mass grave for victims of a massive hurricane remained hidden until 1991.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.