All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

"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."

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.