An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

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

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.

A treehouse assailed by the elements and the government, now gone.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.