A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

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

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

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

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