A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.