Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This recipe is set in stone.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

One of the oldest Catholic churches in the U.S., situated just east of Gettysburg.