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An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

This enchanting forest trail leads to ethereal abodes and a giant bird's nest.