Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Pripyat, now long-abandoned.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

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

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.