This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

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

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

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

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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

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

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

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

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

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

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

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

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

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

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

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.