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"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

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

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

These headstones and a few stone foundations are all that remain of a once-booming mining town.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.