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Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.