The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.