This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.