According to legend, this temple was built to pin down the body of a demoness who lay across the Himalayas.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.