The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

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

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.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.