This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.