A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.