Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The remains of a 13th-century Franciscan friary have survived multiple attempts at destruction, most recently in 1921.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The middle finger of modernity.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.