The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

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

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.