No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

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

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

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

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