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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

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

"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.