The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

America's first public mental health facility.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.