The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

This was once the largest city in Kazakhstan, and a major stop on the Silk Road.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.