The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

New York's oldest magic store.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.