Petros, Tennessee
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Windber, Pennsylvania
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Baltimore, Maryland
An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Queens, New York
This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Queens, New York
This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Montauk, New York
A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.