Mansfield, Ohio
Ohio State Reformatory
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
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Mansfield, Ohio
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Kansas City, Missouri
An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Seymour, Indiana
The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Atlanta, Georgia
This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
Charleston, Illinois
The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.
Stigler, Oklahoma
The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Camden, Tennessee
An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.
Landrum, South Carolina
Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.
Hartsville, Tennessee
This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.