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.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

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.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.