Indianapolis, Indiana
The Ruins
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
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Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Savannah, Georgia
Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Manistique, Michigan
This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Carroll, Ohio
See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Brimley, Michigan
This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.
Leetonia, Ohio
Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.
Chicago, Illinois
A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.
Boston, Massachusetts
Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.
Oyster Bay, New York
Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.
Syosset, New York
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Over 200 people were buried here with only a small stone to mark their final resting place.
Fairborn, Ohio
Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.
Barre, Vermont
This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.
Duxbury, Massachusetts
It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.