This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.