This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

This decommissioned surface-to-surface missile resides outside the American Legion Post in Pennslyvania.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

The site of a tragedy in 1908 that claimed the lives of 171 people and changed fire safety laws across the state.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.