Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.

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

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.