360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

Museum of amazing old toys and automata.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Record-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

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

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.