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

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

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

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

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

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

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

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

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

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt and a pirate.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.