The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.