This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The tragic reality of a town riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.