Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.