In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.