The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

This historic furnace was once used to produce cannonballs during the Civil War.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.