A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

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

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

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

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

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

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.