This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

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

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.