A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

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

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.