Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Said to be one of Sweden's most haunted places, this vicarage once even attracted a ghost-busting priest.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

A hidden sculpture garden tucked within the middle of Brighton.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.