The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.