A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.