An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

The first American axe throwing club.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.