New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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New York, New York
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
Barre, Massachusetts
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
Hoboken, New Jersey
The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Oakland, California
The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.
Hagley, England
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania
The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Victoria, British Columbia
This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Atlanta, Georgia
The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.
Aké, Mexico
A hacienda that features all things uniquely Yucatán.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.
Titusville, Florida
A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.
Louisville, Kentucky
This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.