An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.