A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.