Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.