The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

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