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The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

This inanimate goat created by the "welding nun" has been helping to clean up the city of Spokane for more than 40 years.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.