Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

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

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.