The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.