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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.