The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A stone face watches over the river.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.