Hot Springs, Arkansas
The Arlington Hotel
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
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Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Badin, North Carolina
The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.
Bryson City, North Carolina
The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.
South Bend, Indiana
The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Dedham, Massachusetts
The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Sparta, Tennessee
These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.
Memphis, Tennessee
Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Normal, Illinois
This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.
Warsaw, Virginia
The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.
Boston, Massachusetts
A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.
Louisville, Kentucky
This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.
Concord, North Carolina
The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.