Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

A mineral spring that became all the rage in 17th-century England.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.