Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

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

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

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

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

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

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.