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

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

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

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

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

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

More than five miles of underground passageways.