This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

America's first public mental health facility.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.