Vintondale, Pennsylvania
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The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.
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Vintondale, Pennsylvania
The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
South West City, Missouri
Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.
Norfork, Arkansas
Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.
Northport, Michigan
A lonely stone-sided terminal stands next to a grass airstrip on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula.
Empire, Michigan
This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.
Glen Arbor Township, Michigan
This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.
Leland, Michigan
The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Lead Hill, Arkansas
Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Beacon, New York
A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Washington, West Virginia
One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.