This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

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

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

A quaint miniatures museum that turns its focus towards the lives of Americans in a simpler time.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.