CLUI's Land Use Database

The Center for Land Use Interpretation "is a research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues." Their Culver City office is host to the CLUI Land Use Database, an online collection of more than 1000 "unusual and exemplary" geographic sites throughout the US. You can browse this free public reseource by category (industrial, mining, waste, military, nuclear / radioactive, r&d, transportation, water, cultural) or search landmarks by keyword.