Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.