Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A chimney and a plaque are all that remains of a logging camp that once cleared out a large swath of Minnesota's old-growth forest.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This octagonal rotary jail built in 1889 now serves as a visitor's center.

Rusted and decayed, this former mining site is a portal to the past.