Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

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

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.