This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”