An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

Bizarre Cavern.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.