Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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

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

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.