This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

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

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

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

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

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

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

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

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