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This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.