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An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

America's first public mental health facility.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.