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

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

America's first public mental health facility.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.