This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.