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All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

This castle tower in Wales leans at a steeper angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Baltasar Bachero became a hero after he saved the lives of two children nearly run over by an out-of-control mule-drawn carriage.

Dedicated to the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

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

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.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.