This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Bizarre Cavern.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.