A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

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

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."