This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

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

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

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

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.