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The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

Where the author wrote her beloved "Little House" books.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

The ruins of a once-grand mansion in Northern Ireland are now thought to be haunted.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.