This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

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

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.