Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

These machines have been collecting dust for decades.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.