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

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

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

This little brick tunnel built by Confederate forces was used to conduct surprise attacks on the railroad.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.