The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.