Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

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

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

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

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.