An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

This is the house that spite built.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.