On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

A comedy troupe's collection of bizarre humor.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.