Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.