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A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

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

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.