One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.