This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

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

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.