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Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

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