Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.