Nola trip

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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

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

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

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

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

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

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

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.