Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

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

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.