A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.