Moundsville, West Virginia
West Virginia State Penitentiary
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
Stratford, Connecticut
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
South Park Township, Pennsylvania
One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Boscawen, New Hampshire
Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.
Washington, New Hampshire
A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.
Suncook, New Hampshire
Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.
Cornish, New Hampshire
The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Newbury, New Hampshire
A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.
Hampton, New Hampshire
A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.