This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.