A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.