Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.