This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A tribute to one of the most famous cowboys on TV, and the consumerism that fueled his popularity.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

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

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

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

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