Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

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

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.