Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Yo, Adrian!

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.