This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

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

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.