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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.