Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.