A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.