The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.

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

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.