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A faithful dog is forever watching over the family children.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

Before he was "Bob Marley, international reggae superstar," he was "Donald Marley," a Delaware resident and forklift operator working under an assumed name. This park tells the story.

The C. A. Nothnagle Log House stands as the oldest surviving log cabin in the United States, offering a remarkable glimpse into America's colonial past.

Destructive children, start your engines.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.