One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

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

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

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

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

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.