The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

The Real LegoLand.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.