Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

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

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

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Narrowest house in Boston.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

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

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.