Cañon City, Colorado
Royal Gorge Bridge
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
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Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.
Ragunda, Sweden
Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.
Bournemouth, England
The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Georgetown, South Carolina
A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Akron, Ohio
This former factory has deep ties to rubber production in Akron.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.
Ballygalley, Northern Ireland
The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Antrim, Northern Ireland
This garden has existed for more than three centuries.
East Hampton, New York
This cemetery holds the remains of an accused witch and the man that ensured her freedom.
Arlington, Texas
Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.
Nagoro, Japan
As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.
Baltimore, Maryland
This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Iuka, Mississippi
Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.