Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.