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

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

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

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

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

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.