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A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

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

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

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

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.