Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

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

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

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

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.