This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

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

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

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

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.