A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

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

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.