Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

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

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

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.