The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.