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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.