An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

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

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

America's first public mental health facility.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.