Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The last vessel built by a submarine pioneer stands as a monument to his legacy.

This large boulder was used as a lookout point by Revolutionary War militiamen.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.