A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.