For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Russian history in San Francisco.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This museum glorifies the humble potato.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.