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Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.