A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The magic's in the hole!

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

In Washington's Yakima Valley lies a town "where dinosaurs roam."