These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.