This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

This midcentury chapel is a bold architectural statement and a symbol of Indiana's Lutheran heritage.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.