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Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This observation tower is a longstanding, 1960s landmark in the Thousand Islands region of Canada.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The roofless ruins of a church surrounded by acres of bucolic farmland.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.