The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.