This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.