This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The now-public home of a renowned art collector is full of unique pieces from viceregal and 19th-century Mexico.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.