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Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.