Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This is the house that spite built.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.