This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

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

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Created by four famous men (Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and Thomas Story Kirkbride), the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center...but still boasts a ghost story or two!

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.