At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

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

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.