Townsend, Tennessee
Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
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Townsend, Tennessee
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
Reading, Pennsylvania
This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Framingham, Massachusetts
In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.
Framingham, Massachusetts
A home built and settled by a refugee of the Salem Witch Trials.
North Andover, Massachusetts
The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.
Amherst, Massachusetts
One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.
Gardner, Massachusetts
This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Hull, Massachusetts
Last church of this militaristic WWII style.
Leominster, Massachusetts
The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.
North Adams, Massachusetts
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Fresno, California
The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.
Paicines, California
After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.