A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

"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."

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.