The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

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

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.