Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

This New York florist also sells traditional tofu pudding.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

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.'

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.