A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.