Zoar, Ohio
Historic Zoar Village
Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.
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Zoar, Ohio
Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.
Shreveport, Louisiana
One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.
Shreveport, Louisiana
From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.
Utica, New York
This 1850s mansion reveals how rich Americans lived in the Victorian era.
Oneida, New York
Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.
Rome, New York
An interesting look into 18th-century American history.
Oneida, New York
The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.
Nashville, Tennessee
An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.
Nashville, Tennessee
This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Auburn, Kentucky
The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.
Franklin, Kentucky
A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.
Westmoreland, Tennessee
This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.
Hartsville, Tennessee
This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.
Kinderhook, New York
At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.
Hudson, New York
A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
Ossining, New York
At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.
Haverstraw, New York
This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.