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This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Hidden in this little-known town stands a piece of agriculture history.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.