The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.