Ellicott City, Maryland
St. Mary's College
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
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Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Landenberg, Pennsylvania
The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.
Martinsburg, West Virginia
A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.
Glen Rock, New Jersey
The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Austinville, Virginia
This tower was once used to create ammunition for early settlers.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Fenwick Island, Delaware
A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.
Dover, Delaware
The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Once used as a deterrent to drinking alcohol.