Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

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

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

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.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.