Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

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

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.