This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.