An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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

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

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.