Laurel, Maryland
Forest Haven Asylum
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
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Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.
Morgan Island, South Carolina
4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Los Angeles, California
The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.
Detroit, Michigan
The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Safety Harbor, Florida
This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Dade City, Florida
VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.
Opalton, Australia
These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.
Big Major Cay, Bahamas
In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.
Sanford, North Carolina
An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Costa Rica
One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .
Cahuita, Costa Rica
Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.
Seale, Alabama
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.
Brooklyn, New York
This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.