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A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Featuring a Loretta Lynn display and a re-created coal mine exhibit.

Wander the locker-lined, terrazzo-floored halls and sleep in a former classroom at this unique inn.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

Three courses accompanied by Christian rock.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.

The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.

The childhood home of a Hollywood legend.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

What started as a display of antique hearses has grown into a museum exploring the history of the funeral industry.