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A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

The smallest country in the world.