An unlikely Transcendental Meditation haven in the American Heartland built around the ancient Vedic principles of balance and harmony.

This remote island in Iowa was abandoned after being devastated by flood.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.