The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

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

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.