This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

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

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.