Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.